Former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo paid a visit to Aso Villa on Monday evening, sparking off speculations that he may be in the yet-to-be released ministerial list.
Kayode Fayemi, the former governor of Ekiti state, was also seen at the villa, 30 minutes after Soludo arrived the premises.
Soludo and Fayemi, were seen signing the visitor’s log on their way to the office of Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president.
No information was given on the purpose of the visit, but Soludo is believed to be former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s nominee into the cabinet.
President Buhari is currently putting finishing touches to his ministerial list which he is expected to send to the senate for clearance before the end of September.
Soludo was very critical of the management of the economy by former President Goodluck Jonathan, a stance which pitted him against Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was Jonathan’s finance minister.
He accused Okonjo-Iweala of superintending the waste and mismanagement of over N30 trillion as the co-ordinating minister of the economy, an allegation she denied.
Soludo was chief economic adviser and CBN governor under Obasanjo, but was replaced in 2009 by former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who appointed Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as his replacement.
Soludo was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after its investigation into the polymer note affair.
Fayemi is also expected to be named minister. Meanwhile, it was not known whether both men later met with President Buhari as they waited for the Chief of Staff, who was in the President’s office when they arrived the State House.
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